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When we are young we are poked and prodded towards education. We fight and whine and cry as our parents make us go to that dreaded place known as “school.” We count the days until summer vacation when we can once again be free and happy. We long for a time when school is no longer our burden to bear.

Once we finally get out though, something magical and frightening happens: Those pokes and prods happen less and less, leaving us masters of our own educational fate.

The harsh reality is that if you relied on those pokes and prods to keep you progressing you will find your continued growth after schooling extremely lacking. More than likely you will find yourself stuck in a deep rut one day wondering where it all went wrong.

You are fully responsible for your own improvement and it’s time to bear that burden.

Sometimes the morality-thing can seem like a game, one where everyone just follows rules because those are the rules of the game and for no other reason than that. Sure, most of us believe murdering someone is wrong, but do we know why? What about the minor stuff, the everyday acts we take for granted? Is it really important we follow these rules? What is it that anchors down a moral code (if anything does)?

Ethics is the philosophical study of conduct, and conduct taken broadly can mean pretty much all of our actions in a given day! You’ve figured out that punching random strangers is a horrible thing to do, but you’ve likely never thought about whether or not the way you staple a stack of paper is ethical or morally right, but we perform our actions in a certain way for a reason, whether that reason is conscious to us or not. [Read more…] about Anchoring Down Morals: Developing Personal Responsibility

Creating artwork is both a very relaxing and very stressful activity for me. I don’t do it as often as I should, but when I do, I try to make the work something special.

Recently I have begun to notice similar trends between how my sketching process plays out compared to other projects I get involved in. In fact, the similarity is so much so that it’s kind of scary. There exist parallels between projects of different kinds, and by understanding my own sketches I’ve come to see how I handle most projects.